Haul away, you rolling king

[sovay]

So the first pieces of news that greeted me when I woke up were the death of Jeffrey Epstein and the punishment of Arisia for supporting a strike, neither of which was a great chaser to the realization that yesterday's excruciating headache did not have the decency to buzz off overnight, but I also saw via spatch this wonderful production still of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984):



It is so effectively in character and outside the plot that it looks like fanfic. Have some links.

1. Elie Mystal and Ken White, "Should the North Carolina Gun Store Billboard Targeting 'The Squad' Be Unconstitutional?"

2. Ethan Siegel, "Astronomy Faces a Field-Defining Choice in Choosing the Next Steps for the TMT."

3. Philip Miller, "Biennale." The magazine is dedicated to islands, which I love.

I was supposed to spend the day with my niece, but the current circumstances are looking like spending the evening with her. She wants to watch Ponyo (2008), which I haven't seen in almost a decade. I think I can manage to do that.

Comments

[sara]

I would also hope that the corporation itself is carrying some kind of directors' and officers' liability coverage. Like, this judgment should not be getting paid out of assets or the operating budget. It should be getting paid out of someone's insurance. Unless there's something I don't understand (quite possible, none of my nonprofits have ever fucked it to the tune of 125k), it seems to me like it should be an insurance problem at this point.

[rosefox]

That was my first thought too, but I have no clue what Arisia Inc. does behind the scenes.

[sara]

Nope. I just thought the FB discussion was pretty weird given that my first take would not be that we might need to fundraise, it would be that we were going to need to find a VERY good insurance broker if we didn't want to get the claim paid out and then have to dissolve the corporation because we were subsequently uninsurable.